War Room Lounge v140:(redacted)

[luckyshot]

I don't think you can meaningfully purport to separate Shakespeare's craft and his 'substance'. I also don't know what would constitute an 'objective' opinion of Shakespeare that doesn't consider his skill with language. Hoping to vivisect art to get at the point of the art is a mug's game. It is trivially true that you need a certain faculty with English to properly appreciate Shakespeare, but how Shakespeare expressed himself is part of the substance. I'm thinking a bit about what Eliot talks about in "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent).

Also, Harold Bloom basically argued that Shakespeare 'invented' humanity as we now understand it in the English-speaking world, which is a pretty significant accomplishment, if you accept the thesis:
https://www.district205.net/cms/lib...he-invention-of-the-human-harold-bloompdf.pdf

Well, I think Bloom has a very strong thesis that would argue heavily in favor of Shakespeare's profundity. But why limit the question to the English-speaking world? That Bloom expresses his thesis in such terms sort of concedes my point in part.

To be clear, I'm not arguing that art and substance should be separated, I'm just speaking to Jack's question of understanding of the human condition and arguing that-- for an English speaker-- it is difficult to make an objective judgment on the relative profundity of, let's say Shakespeare versus Dante or Dostoyevsky.

Our minds are simply too colored by Shakespeare's absolute mastery of our native language.

 

[curryjunkie]

Trump Slaughters Dozens Of American Troops In Hopes Of Cashing In On Russian Bounties

whats the right wings response to the news that he was briefed about this and did exactly dick about it? cos all i hear is crickets...yet they still bleat about benghazi..

 

[Sketch]

Dude has really stepped up his game

Fuck this made me lol hard <Lmaoo>

 

[BarryDillon]

Bill Waterson deserves a mention here.

 

[Sketch]

@Limbo Pete

That cow doesn't realize how lucky it is.

 

[Limbo Pete]

@Limbo Pete

He's a god damn treasure

 

[Sycho Sid]

Probably between 10-15% performance. The 2070 Super is basically a trimmed down 2080 kinda like how the Ti cards are trimmed down Titans. Here are some comparisons at different resolutions.

Spoiler

If you're not in a rush though, both Nvidia and AMD should be releasing their newest stuff later this year. Actually, Nvidia should be releasing the 3080 series next month, so you're in a good spot as far as being in the market goes.

Excellent. I'm in no rush. So when the new stuff comes out, do you figure it will be a decent price drop for the older stuff?

 

[Limbo Pete]

Hunto was wearing a shirt in a recent Instagram post that said "I'll shut up when you fuck off" and I was like yussss

 

[helltoupee]

Well, white American street gangs don't exist in the US anymore. White prison gangs and biker gangs aren't the same thing. Neither are the various types of organized crime organizations.

When they did exist in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was mostly made up of groups that were also marginalized: Irish, Jews, Italians. They didn't face systemic racism to the extent that blacks and Latinos did, obviously, but the element of ethnic discrimination was also there.

This in not true my friend.

There are white American street gangs - they just aren't as big and powerful as the other gangs people typically think of. I can name several right here in Southern California - PENI, Fresnecks, Crazy White Boys, Insane White Boys, Nazi Low Riders, etc etc etc., there are thousands of them.

These are street gangs, who also ride same in prison, which makes some of them both street gangs and "prison gangs".

The overriding difference between white gangs and gangs of other races is that white gangs overwhelmingly place a very high importance on being a white supremacist ideology. Most white American street gangs are skinhead based, which deserves credit for much of that. But make no mistake about it. You will see white guys who are bloods. White guys who are crips. White guys who are surenos. Even white guys who are Latin Kings. But you will NEVER see a black guy in a white gang. Black surenos? Yep. Black PENI or AB? Not a chance in hell.

Of course this doesn't mean that everyone who is involved in either prison or street gangs are supremacists. In fact, I would say most of the guys in those gangs are only racist out of convenience, or as something they use to puff themselves up. There is no mistaking that white supremacy is a huge focal point of almost every white gang out there, compared to everyone else, who will accept you as long as you're down.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Huh? They exist, even beyond the white supremacist or peckerwood groups. Like White Boy Blood sets, DMI, Popes and Royals. We’ve even had some Royals that came out here and set up some prostitution and drug operations in the last couple years.

If you include racist white street gangs the list can go on for pages.

Had to look those up (because like 99.9% of people, I'd never heard of them) and, surprise, surprise, at least the Popes and Royals are mostly multiracial, and when they started, they began by two "white ethnic" groups: Irish and Greeks. Also, if they're flying out to Hawaii to set up prostitution and drug operations, then they're squarely in organized crime territory, and not a street gang.

This isn't chemistry or physics where a group HAS to have certain qualities and these are neatly organized, but the general trend is pretty clear: the vast majority of street gangs are a product of big cities, poverty, ethnic/racial marginalization.

@Falsedawn

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Its true. We had a ska themed wedding and check this out. Our song was slapsticks earth angel which is on that very cd i loned her from the very first time we talked. I got punk ska magic dude. I come alive when i hear it and amazing things happen to me when its on.

And few years back when we hit 20 years as a couple we celebrated with another ska themed wedding cake and then took all our friends to a demolition derby and it was one of the greatest days of my life to date.

Great story , well done

 

[weed]

Hunto was wearing a shirt in a recent Instagram post that said "I'll shut up when you fuck off" and I was like yussss

he's been looking healthy-young in his recent videos. so weird.

 

[Fawlty]

Except I think many, if not most, people intuitively understand the "not real communism" line of truth: that advanced modern economies ceding the production of wealth to worker organizations toward diminishing and eliminating the explanatory power of private ownership (of firms or plots) on political power is fundamentally different than a collection of undeveloped agrarian countries being seized by political parties that then own and operate their economies, make workers subject to their will, and strip worker organizations of most or all of their democratic influence on society.

Wah wah.

Correctness at the cost of contextualizing my zinger. Bah, I say.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

This in not true my friend.

There are white American street gangs - they just aren't as big and powerful as the other gangs people typically think of. I can name several right here in Southern California - PENI, Fresnecks, Crazy White Boys, Insane White Boys, Nazi Low Riders, etc etc etc., there are thousands of them.

These are street gangs, who also ride same in prison, which makes some of them both street gangs and "prison gangs".

The overriding difference between white gangs and gangs of other races is that white gangs overwhelmingly place a very high importance on being a white supremacist ideology. Most white American street gangs are skinhead based, which deserves credit for much of that. But make no mistake about it. You will see white guys who are bloods. White guys who are crips. White guys who are surenos. Even white guys who are Latin Kings. But you will NEVER see a black guy in a white gang. Black surenos? Yep. Black PENI or AB? Not a chance in hell.

Of course this doesn't mean that everyone who is involved in either prison or street gangs are supremacists. In fact, I would say most of the guys in those gangs are only racist out of convenience, or as something they use to puff themselves up. There is no mistaking that white supremacy is a huge focal point of almost every white gang out there, compared to everyone else, who will accept you as long as you're down.

Alot of militias are just gangs of a different name imo

 

[Possum Jenkins]

@Possum Jenkins I'm starting to think that time you spent on Stormfront was perhaps not that informative?

You don't even know that there are white street gangs.

It was plenty informative. Time well spent.

It informed me of mainstream ideas such as ethnonationalism, racial hierarchies, hysteria over Marxism, hysteria over globalists (lol), white genocide, and other things you hear the modern right fret over.

No mention of white street gangs since they're beyond marginal.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Wow. My local Walgreens has masks back in stock, not just knitted ones. Also 70+% alcohol hand sanitizer at non ridiculous prices. The masks are nuts tho. Almost a dollar each

 

[Sketch]

It was plenty informative. Time well spent.

It informed me of mainstream ideas such as ethnonationalism, racial hierarchies, hysteria over Marxism, hysteria over globalists (lol), white genocide, and other things you hear the modern right fret over.

No mention of white street gangs since they're beyond marginal.

Do you still talk to some of those guys

 

[Limbo Pete]

he's been looking healthy-young in his recent videos. so weird.

I think the time off from fighting has done him a lot of good
It's incredible how put together he still is considering the decades of getting punched and kicked to bolivia

 

[Bullitt68]

Having said that, actual Marxist/very left academics are highly resisted still today

They are? By whom? Certainly not by other academics, trust me. "Actual Marxist/very left academics" describes my colleagues. Granted, I'm a film scholar and I try not to wade into political waters unless I have to (if e.g. I'm teaching a broader media studies class) - I care more about what my colleagues' favorite movies and TV shows are than who they vote for - but I at least want to clarify that academia is in no way, shape, or form resistant to "actual Marxist/very left academics" because academia today is almost entirely comprised of "actual Marxist/very left academics."

 

[Falsedawn]

Excellent. I'm in no rush. So when the new stuff comes out, do you figure it will be a decent price drop for the older stuff?

Probably. Not massive, but noticeable.